Chapter 24: Confrontation
"Is it effective for you to talk in Anchangwei?" Ma Angelica asked. "If you can't be the master, go back and change to someone who can be the master!"
Hearing this, Luo Guihe was a little speechless, and hesitated for a while before replying: "The general doesn't know, just now my family patriarch has fainted because he saw his clansmen being slaughtered by Yingyi, and he was in a hurry. Now everyone in the clan is panicking, and only a few brothers of the villain can barely make ends meet! ”
"Oh!" Ma Angelica looked at Luo Guihe in a daze, as if he wanted to tell from his facial expressions whether he was lying. "Then how are your Luo family going to deal with the aftermath?"
"Since you should be the general, you should be the head of the horse!" Luo Guihe arched his hand and said respectfully.
Ma Angelica "Hey, hey" laughed twice, "You're very good at talking!" Look at you like a person who has read a book, and the trick of crossing the river and tearing down the bridge is used well. When we see unevenness on the road, draw your sword to help, and you will lead the water to the east and repay virtue with grievances. After helping you defeat the British and draw the anger of the British on us, this matter has nothing to do with you now. How can there be such a cheap thing in the world? Are we fools? ”
Luo Guihe's color changed slightly, and he instantly returned to his expression of pampering and not being surprised, "The general's words are serious!" We grass people are like ants to the general, life and death are taken away, all in the general's thoughts, how dare we have no tricks? Between the words, he completely bowed his posture, lowered his eyebrows and pleasing his eyes like a small scolding, which also meant squeezing Ma Angelica: We are weak and weak, and we are not the opponents of the British; You're bigger, so of course you should be at the top.
"Don't say it's useless." Ma Angelica waved his hand, indicating that he didn't have time to grind his teeth here. "The British have suffered such a big loss, they will come back at any time to retaliate, we only have more than 30 people now, and it will take more than an hour for reinforcements to arrive at the earliest. If you don't want your family to be ruined, go and call all those who can take up arms at once, and go with our men to build the fortifications, and then listen to the command of our men. The British beat them hard if they dared to come, and they held out until reinforcements came. ”
"This ......" Luo Guihe looked embarrassed, "I'm afraid this villain can't be the master." ”
Ma Angelica was already very impatient, raised the watch on his wrist and shook it in front of the other party, "I'll give you twenty minutes, if you don't find people, I'll take the troops and leave, and we don't care if you live or die." Regardless of whether the other party understood how long twenty minutes was, he turned around and left.
On a hillside outside the village, an operator is calling the base on a radio. Ma Angelica walked up to him and asked, "Is it through?" ”
"That's it." The operator took off the headset and handed it to Ma Angelica along with the microphone. Ma Angelica held the microphone in his left hand, and put the earphone on his right ear with his right hand, "Lotus paste bag, lotus paste bag, I am a barbecued pork bag, I am a barbecued pork bag." Please answer when you receive it! Please answer when you receive it! I couldn't help but secretly slander in my heart, this is the code name agreed by his female horse, so with local characteristics.
"Lotus paste bag received, please speak!" The other party quickly replied.
"I am Ma Angelica, the commander of the special task force, and now I have a special situation to inform Kiqiudi! Our task force arrived in Kowloon at 11 o'clock this morning and encountered a small group of British troops outside Anchang Wai...... "Ma Angelica reported the conflict between the task force and the British army in the most concise language, and the time was urgent, so he could only briefly explain the causes, processes, and results of the conflict, and asked the base to send reinforcements as soon as possible. "According to the information gathered, there are still about 200 British troops on the island of Hong Kong, most of them Gurkha infantry. After being beaten hard by us and taking dozens of people prisoner, we will definitely send a large force to the rescue, so I would like to ask the base to send reinforcements as soon as possible! We have mobilized nearby villagers to assist in the defense, and there is no problem holding the position. After learning that the base had clearly sent two platoons, Ma Angelica ended the call. At this time, the sentry in charge of monitoring on the seaside informed Ma Angelica that there was an abnormal movement of the British troops on the opposite shore, and Ma Angelica immediately pulled Zhang Pan and ran towards the observation post.
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On a hillside on the Kowloon Peninsula, two men in camouflage uniforms are lying on their stomachs in the grass, looking at Hong Kong Island across the water with binoculars.
The location of the two is the Kowloon Park in Tsim Sha Tsui, which is still a barren hill, and the only buildings are seven or eight thatched huts in the village below the hillside. Even the Fude Temple, which is said to have been rebuilt in 1900 and moved from the old market of Beijing Road to the new market of Haiphong Road, does not exist. Lying on the left with a telescope in his hand is Han Jialang, the captain of the reconnaissance team of the Liberation Army, who is 289 years old, with upright facial features and heroic spirit, and a Type 79 sniper rifle on his right hand. As a Taiwanese, he has two years of experience in serving in the special operations reconnaissance team, and after retiring from the army, he became a policeman in Yunlin County. Fortunately, the skills he learned in the army have not been put down, and now they can come in handy again, and he killed five British soldiers alone in the battle just now.
As he observed, he told the soldiers around him about the situation on the other side, who wrote them down on a simple map. This map was rubbed from a map of Hong Kong from the original time and space, and only the topography, place names, and buildings still needed to be added after they had observed. "The red-roofed building on the hillside should be the Governor's House, the barracks under the hillside should be the Admiralty Victoria Barracks, next to St. John's Cathedral, and the fort next to it should be the Murray Fort in the fort......" After the British occupied Hong Kong in 1841, the original time and space Garden Road, the hillside from Upper Albert Road to Jilian Nali was designated as Government Hill (GovernmentHill), and the administrative center of the colony was established here. The Governor's House is strategically located on Upper Albert Road, overlooking Victoria Harbour and the Central District. It is issued to the General Administration of the Government, St. John's Cathedral, next to the Admiralty Victoria Barracks, and then there is a botanical and botanical garden, and the layout reflects the governance and lifestyle of the British. Designed by the second Director General of the Survey and Survey, Calaffly, the Doge's House began in October 1851 and took four years to complete in 1855 at a cost of £14,940. During the British rule, except for the first three governors, the remaining 25 governors lived in the province. The Murray Battery, also known as the Central Battery, was the first fort set up by the British Army in Hong Kong after the opening of Hong Kong. The battery was built in 1845 and was responsible for the defense of the entire city of Victoria. Due to its relatively inland location, the fort was abandoned in the early 20th century as Victoria City grew. Military buildings in the vicinity of Murray Fort include the Murray Barracks, the Murray Playground and the Wellington Barracks. The existing fort in Central is named after the Murray Fort. Now the British troops on the fort come and go, busy like ants, presumably already aware of the situation on the military side, and are actively preparing for defense.
At this time, there were not many British in Hong Kong, and because of the Second Opium War, a large number of troops and warships were transferred. There are only a few merchant ships in Victoria Bay, still unarmed wooden sailing ships, and the Star Pier in Central did not open until 1890, so there are only a few wooden trestles now. Looking from east to west, the prosperous areas of the later generations, such as West Ring, Sheung Wan, Central, Wan Chai, Causeway Bay and Tin Hau, can not even see a shadow now, except for a few British buildings that are relatively beautiful, most of the Chinese houses are dilapidated thatched huts, few brick houses, almost no mansions, and even Xin'an County cannot be compared.
On the Kowloon side, because the "Beijing Treaty" had to wait until two years later, Stonecutters Island on the right hand had not been ceded to the British along with Kowloon, and it was still a desert island, and it was not until 1890 that the island was listed as military land, and in 1905 it officially became a naval base. The nearby Tsim Sha Tsui East, Tsim Sha Tsui Tsui, Jordan, Yau Ma Tei and Hung Hom are just a few small villages.
"St. John's Cathedral, isn't that near the Bank of China Tower?" Durari climbed up from behind, holding a DVD and continuing to shoot on Hong Kong Island, expressing his opinions as he filmed.
"Yes! But it will have to wait until 1989, if you can live another 140 years. Han Jialang didn't look back, and casually joked with him. It's a pity that Mr. Pei's grandfather hasn't been born yet! ”
"There seem to be only 200 people in the barracks, they are yellow people, and the other Gurkha knives in their waists should be Gurkha soldiers. There were only four front-loading guns on that battery. If we had a ship, we would be able to occupy Hong Kong with just one company. Vice Minister Du, who prides himself on being a half-military strategist, began to make his lofty remarks again.
"What's the use of occupying it? We don't even have a front-loading gun, how can we hold it? Bombardment with mortars and warships? At this time, Ma Angelica and Zhang Pan also rushed over, and Ma Angelica took over the conversation. As far as our people are concerned, it is very difficult to hold the current territory, and now that we are in conflict with John Bull, how can we dare to challenge the colonial order of Westerners? Isn't that to confront all the European and American powers? Also, do you think the Gurkhas are easy to bully? Gogol's scimitar is still very sharp! After speaking, he put away the binoculars from Han Jialang's hand, began to carefully observe the movements of the British army, and muttered to himself. In order to control this place before the signing of the Treaty of Peking, as long as it is out of the jurisdiction of the Qing government, we can avoid the agreement signed between the Qing court and the British to cede the Kowloon Peninsula, and we can also limit the British to Hong Kong Island. ”
"Why don't you just run away with the British?" The muscular man Zhang Pan's brain is also full of muscles, "Even if we can't hold it, we can't be cheap British." ”
"We don't have the strength to fight a full-scale war with the British, so we can only keep the situation within the limits of a local conflict. This war can only be fought to the point, and it can only hurt them, not annihilate them. As long as we do not occupy Hong Kong Island, there is still room for maneuver in this matter, otherwise the British will definitely die endlessly. Nor will it arouse the alarm of other powers. "Since the end of the conflict, Ma Angelica has been thinking about this aspect. Those words had been weighing in his mind for a while, and now he said them to appease the army. After all, going to war with the Empire, the world's most powerful country in this time and space, is an unpredictable event; At the same time, I also want to instill my own point of view in everyone. Ma Angelica could imagine that the Governing Council would definitely question him for this conflict, and now he needed to win over the allies.
The British troops on the other side of the river could be said to be pouring out of the nest at this time, but when the situation was unclear, General Charles Storbinzi did not dare to act rashly. In the general's dictionary, to defeat a company of British Army, it takes at least one battalion of equivalently equipped European troops. If it is the Chinese army, it is useless to have more, a volley of guns and a bayonet charge can crush them. However, according to the reports of the soldiers who escaped, the enemy was not numerous, but the fire was very strong. The two sides exchanged fire only once, and the British army was crushed. If it weren't for the fact that the soldiers who escaped were guarding the side of the ship and seeing the opportunity quickly, they would not have been able to escape the fate of being captured. At first, the general thought that what he heard was a fantasy, but then what happened made him understand that it was a living fact. Except for the few soldiers just now, no soldiers returned, and it seems that they were either killed or captured. Then the sentinels reported that a large number of Chinese were digging trenches on the opposite bank, apparently preparing for war. The general hurriedly ordered the whole army to be ready for combat at the first level, and the soldiers in the barracks also went to the battery under the leadership of the officer, and all kinds of weapons and ammunition were carried out of the warehouse. At the same time, the general did not forget to inform the British civilians on the island to take refuge in the barracks, and for a time both sides of Victoria Bay were full of chickens and dogs.